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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18
WHAT WILL REAGAN DO2

AS President Cleveland has been re
ported as having accorded to Messrs.
Cullom and Reagan the designation of
one commissioner each under the inter
state bill, the papers have been busy try
ing to discover the preferences of these
gentlemen. So far as our own great in
ter-stater is concerned, THE GAZETTE was
informed by gentleman that Mr.. Reagan
had signed recommendation for Colonel
c.. S. Mitchell of Dallas. The Nashville
Union some days ago stated that Mr..
The Louisville Courier-Journal of recent
date said: "The President is reported to
have agreed upon Mr.. Herman of New
York for the inter state commission.
General Bragg of Alabama is said to be
viewed with favor, while the Texas dele
cation asks that Senator Maxey be APP
pointed, and Mr.. Reagan will enthusiast
ticaliy support him. No member of the
House or Senate, however, can be ap-
pointed until after the present session
expires, and it has been gener-
ally expected that the President
will make the nominations before
Congress adjourns." And now
comes the Nashville American of the 18th
with Washington telegram, saying
UGdge Reagan denies the report tele-
graphed from here last night that he had
recommended Congressman Mills for an
appointment on the interstate commerce
commission. The report came from a
source that admitted of no question, and
the hour being late no effort was made to
verify it by calling on the gentleman con-
cerned. 1t turns out that the suggestion
MADE in these dispatches several days ago
of the name of Senator Maxey for place
on the board has been adopted by the
Texas congressional delegation. Judge
Reagan heartily COncurs in the move, and
if Texas should be recognized it will
probably be by the appointment of Gen
eral Maxey." 1t would appear that the
weight of testimony is in favor of the
belief that Reagan and all the Texas dele
CATION have united on Maxey. And the
Outs and the Kids of the Lone Star State
have, therefore, thrown away the pipe of
peace, resurrected the Ratchet ard will
hunt for scalps in 1888. This is predic-
tior, not threat
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18
COMPLETELY DISGUISED.
An Illinois Man Not Particularly Pleased
with His Visit to Texas.

Ell PAso, Tx, Feb. 10, 1887.
To the Editor of the Gaze tie.
Speaking about booms in towns in
Western Texas, don't you think
little honest journalism would help
matters and effect more than this "over-
done" style effected by such papers as
the Inter-Republics of e. Paso, who
actually mislead people? Now, my name
is Boggs-Hiram Boggs-I am
from nlinois-"Boggs' Four Cor
ners" is my address. A neigh
Dor takes the FL Paso paper above men,
toned, aud l read it. l was deluded into
making FL Paso visit by reading that
paper. l found q town there. The
principal business so far as l could see
was gambling, saloons and something
worse. l could not locate a
single enterprise in the place-not sin
gle manufacturing enterprise OF any kind.
not even farm, or mill, or factory,
nor mining enterprise, or even veg
etable farm. The town was made up Of
rum mills and gambling dens. Now, Mr..
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18
COMANCHE.

The End of the Winter Drouth-The Stories
of Suffering Greatly Exaggerated.
Core spondence of the Gazette.
CoMANCHE, Tex, Feb. 1.-THE last
two days marked the end OF the winter
drouth. A fine rain fell here three weeks
ago which started wheat to growing, aud
the rains of the past two days are all that
could be desired for present purposes
Everybody is inspired with new life, and
old farmers generally predict a larger
crop than has been known for years. The
suffering from the past years. failure has
been grossly exaggerated as regards this
county because, while people have keenly
felt the pressure of financial stringency
there has been but little actual destitu.
tion-in fact, it can hardly be
said that anybody had suffered 70.
bread. An occasional afflicted or wild
owed family has been in a close shave tor
food, but such cases have been almost as
rare as during any other year, and no.
body, so far as can be learned has lost 8
pound of flesh from starvation.
Our District court is in session here
now, Hon. John C. Randolph of Coleman,
successor TO observation-disclosures Wheel
er, presiding. Judge Randolph fills his
new position very creditably, and is win
ming popularity rapidly. The criminal
docket was taken up to-day. Several
chronic civil cases were tried and dis
posed OF last week.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18

Editor, this sort of advertising don't do.
By relying on it was brought 1910 miles,
and found town without single chart
table institution. If woman should get
knocked down by street car in that
place, the only asylum you could find for
her would be gin mill, drug store, or
the county jail. They claim to have a
city park there. There is square laid
off and fenced in. 1t has water in it. They
call it fountain. l judge the water
has been there some time. 1t
smells so. Otherwise the park is mostly
dust and stray burrows. l suppose this
is a propar way of advertising your west
ern towns, but for my part l fail to see
the point. Do you think 1 could collect
my expenses, ETC., from the InterRepub-
lies? might make it appear that when
they advertised their "city" (D they mis-
led me. l shall now go home and stay
there. Fort Worth appears to me to be
about the only town have seen so far
Yours, HIRAM BoGGs.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18
a FARCE, AT BEST.

Senator Coke is right, watcher he can
get the majority in the Senate to agree
with him or not-the investigation into
the so-called Washington county outrages
ought to be pursued in the locality where
these outrages are alleged to have
been committed. The committee, par
tisan as TO its majority, sitting
IN Washington city, ought instead
to be holding its sessions in Washington
county, Tex. Such a committee ought
not, perhaps, be in existence at all, for
the simple reason that the "outrages" it
is called on to investigate had no founda-
ton save in the fertile imaginations of
Hackworth and his fellow compartments.
But as long as the Senate felt warranted
in putting on foot the investigation, what
more proper or natural than it should
pursue its quest in Texas, on the ground
Texas the committee would be able to
see things as they are; in Washington,
despite the evidence of the score or more
respectable gentlemen who have gone
there from Texas to testify, there will
be no such opportunity. And, after
all, what win be the outcome?
The majority of Republicans on the
committee will of course declare the com
plants well founded and just, the Demo-
cratic minority will declare to the Coz
trary, and there the matter will end, save
as to the bloody shirt, partisan ranting
for political uses in 1888, that it will give
opportunity for. The Senate cannot do
anything, even granting the complaints
are proven, for Texas is state, with her
laws, her full autonomy-cOmpetent and
willing to enforce her laws ard do justice
to the humblest citizen within her borders
and Congress cannot undertake to
usurp what Texas alone ought and can
do. The whole proceeding is farce, but
we suppose Senator Coke desired to make
it as regular as possible, to preserve the
unities, as it were, and supplement his
very vigorous and eloquent protest, en-
tered at the outset, against any proceed
ings at sill in this matter.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18
NO WHIPPING POSTIN TEXAS.

L L
Citizens of Hays and Caldwell counties
have sent up petition to the Texas Leg
islature to so amend the penal code as to
make whipping the legal penalty for theft.
! The petition has been read in the House
and next thing, We dare say, some men,
| Der will introduce bill to put in force
the prayer of the petitioners. It has
been many year since legislative ses-
sion went by without this subject com
ing up. THE GAZETTE had secret hopes
the Twentieth Legislature would prove
an exception to the rule, but such is not
the case-the people who want to set up
the whipping post are always with US. The
biennial sessions of the Legislature are
the only opportunities these people have
TO put in serious appearance, but they
bob up then, as serenely as though
Legislature after Legislature hadn't put
its foot on every proposition of the kind.
The whipping post was never featute of
the penal code in Texas. Even in aste-
bellum days, when Pecksniffian philan-
thropists Up north, who didn't know any
thing worth knowing OF southern senti
ment and tendencies were ready to be-
lieve anything possible under southern
institutions, the whipping post was not a
possibility in Texas. 1t is equally an i'm
possibility now, and # bill is introduced
to establish it such bill ought and no
doubt will be promptly voted down.
Such a measure of punishment is re-
pugnant to the spirit of our people,
to the progress of the age and to the
tendencies of our civilization. 1t is 8
relic of barbsrism and has not lessened
crime to any appreciable extent in the
only state of the Union (Delaware)
where it survives. The people of Texas
do not want it, and THE GAZETTE does not
apprehend the present Legislature will
adopt it. If THE GAZETTE has given the
subject this much of space and consider
alton, the sole object in so doing is to
admonish those legislators who may
possibly favor it against the folly of
wasting their time and talents on
measure that has no possible value as a
preyent4nt of crime that is brutally
demoralizing in its tendencies, and which
ca..not furnish single intelligent plea In
It's own behalf, unless, indeed, it be that
wife-beaters are brutes, and to brutes
only should brutal penalty ap-
ply. People will steal and COM
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18

The GAZETTE would suggest to
"Hiram Boggs" that he ought not to ex-
pect OF the west the finished work and
completeness of the east. FL Paso has a
grand prospect. Its location would seem
to insure future commercial greatness,
and it is this consciousness, doubtless,
that colors oil its people say OF it. But
is not This true of ali new communities
that feel assured of their future? And
people who come west, it must be re-
membered, come for the future more
than for the present; they come for OPP
portunities and not for means of enjoy
ment. No man judges fairly who meas
ures the short existence of the west by
the long life of the east "Hiram Boggs"
certainly did not leave all the comforts of
the east in the hope that he would find
superior comforts in the west; did he not
rather ego west" in the hope of finding
opportunities superior to those offered
by the esst-opportunities now and the
comforts that time would bring with
growth?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18
To Revise tho Mining Law.

PECoS CITY, Ten, Feb. -, 1887.
To the Editor of the Gazette.
The people of West Texas are watching
with tremulous anticipation the result Of
the mastery efforts that the Hon. r. H
Burney is putting forth in our behalf for
the revision of the present non-progres-
sive mining law, which throttles one OF
the most important of our state industries
and deprives the state school fund of q
large revenue, by keeping capital away
from US and sending large per cent. OF
our citizens into other countries where
liberal laws to encourage the develop.
ment of the above industry exist. Should
his efforts DC crowned with success our
people will ever be proud of having placed
him where he could champion their uude,
niable and unequivocal rights. O.S.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18
THERE are flying rumors that Princes

THERE are flying rumors that Princess
Louise is seeking divorce from Lord
Lorne. Those in high places do not
seem to be in this matter exempt from
the ills of common mortality, but it is to
ne hoped the public is not 10 be treated
to such a dish as the Colin Campbell case
offered. Still, if the testimony is made
public, there will be doubtless enough Of
strong flavor to satisfy prurient curiosity
The Marquis, according to gossip, was
not above suspicion during his residence
in Canada, and is generally known to be
an admirer of pretty women, while his
wife, on the strength of her royal blood,
has seen fit to make him play second part
in the matrimonial arrangement. Hence
the discord, which has no Y, it is believed,
reached such pitch as to be beyond the
control of the august law, who
herself made the experiment of marrying
husband of social inferiority success
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18

Mr. CHARLES MALLORY of New York
seems to think that individuals in this
country have few rights left which even
4 petty, arrogant boss of Knights of La
Dor Assembly is bound to respect. A tele-
gram from New York to THE GAZETTE
yesterday records this incident: "Master
Workman Quinn of District Assembly 40,
Knights of Labor, called at the Mallory
Line pier to-day and tod Charles Mallory
ne came to settle the labor trouble on the
pier. Mr.. Mallory said eve have not
got any trouble with our men and l know
you never worked on this pier. and there
fore l have no knowledge of YOU NAL
Tory walked away, and an officer escorted
1925 representative outside the gate"
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18

overlooked. While to the sister may be
conceded less strength of character, and
therefore q greater tendency to be en-
shared in the net spread oy willy temp
ter, she is not guiltless of the blood shed,
nor the sin committed. When wife so
far forgets the obligations laid upon her
by the marriage VOW voluntarily taken, as
to receive gallantries from idlers in socie-
ty, and reposes her condolences with
any save her husband, she has taken
long stride on the way that
leads TO destruction, and can hardly
be considered victim of mans
wiles when she falls never to rise
again. Neither can wife plead ignor-
ance of the tendency of those lover-like
attentions, for in the breast of true
woman there is implanted instincts so
sensitive that at the first advance she
takes alarm and shrinks within herself
Her love of admiration and the spirit OF
coquetry, more or less prevailing in all
women, may be mlslnterpreted by vain
man, but she should at once turn to the
arms that are sworn to shield her and
stay within their protection. There are
few Williams so bold who, without some
encouragement, real or fancied, will al
tack the citadel of woman's honor, and
that woman who is thus indiscreet de-
serves the censure heaped upon her and
the stain which no avenging hand car
wipe away. The lesson taught by this
sad tragedy is that women should SC
guard their acts that not even the breath
of suspicion could cloud their fair fame
and then there will be no need for such
bloody examinations of mad folly.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18

THE bill appropriating $4,000 to pur-
chase seed for the drouth stricken sec
tions has been vetoed by the President
thus cutting OFF any hope of relief that
may have been expected from that quar-.
ter Texas stands to-day before the Wo!ld
not only as beggar, but one Inundated
by refusal. An old farmer wishing to
reap his field sought help from friends and
neighbors, but all falling to come to his
aid, at last he and his sons decided to do
it themselves. Then the timid lark, whose
young brood was sheltered in the waving
grain, knew the time had come when she
must seek safety for her family in some
would now be done. No longer suppl
ant for federal bounty, it is more becom-
ing in so great state as Texas to rise and
show the people that her boosted re
sources are not fictitious but real, and
that of herself she is able to cope with
the calsmihes which have befallen part
of her great territory. The want of seed
for the coming crop exists, and is in
fact the crying want of the drouth-suffer-
ers To fail of supply of this is to en-
tail upon these people another year of
restitution. In the whole state of Texas
are there not Zoe men who Gin give a
500 each to make up The fund which
Congress was asked to furnish? To for
ward enterprises of business importance
that will build up towns, men do not hes
itate to put their hands in their pockets
much deeper than this. Then why should
they pause when it comes to sending sub
staDtial aid to so large an extent of coun-
try tributary to these towns, and without
which their progress would receive ma
terial check? The proof is easily OBJ
tanned that seed is the want, and an or
ganized effort to satisfy this need is all
that will be necessary. State pride, gen
uine benevolence, and substantial pro-
gress demand this effort.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18

A GREAT truth has dawGed upon the
Waco Examiner, and that truth will grow
palmer to the generality of people within
the next three years. The public lants
lie WeSt Of Fort Worth, and for the eastern
territory there is competition at Paris,
Sherman, Denison, Greenville, Dallas and
Waco, the latter being also in western
fields. For supremacy in the east Dallas
looks out Oh competitors already in the
field, stout and alert, among which is Fort
Worth that sells more goods east
of Dallas than the latter sells west.
But when this city casts its eye
westward and considers its own facili-
ties, where is there cause for trepi-
dalton? When the rare shall near
its erd Waco will be larg-
er wholesale point than Dallas,
and Fort Worth will be the largest city in
the southwest. But this is the truth that
has dawned upon the Waco Examiner
''If there were no Fort Worth, Dali
las might eventually become nearly
as live business point as
Waco. AS long as "the place
where the panther laid down" holds out
to burn, Dallas must play second TO
Waco. This is one of the memorable laws
of frontier development"
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18
Notice to Drou,h Sufferers.

The drouth relief committee have writ
ten to all the counties which they sup
posed would need assistance. II is pos
sible that some counties have been over
looked. 1t is important and desirable
that all counties needing aid and believ-
ing themselves entitled to it under the
relief bill recently passed by the Legisla-
ture, shall correspond with the commit
tee without delay Address Drouth Re-
lief Committee, Cisco, Eastland county,
Tex.
Local papers in drouth regions please
copy. II. P. LEAGUE,
February 10, 1887. For Committee.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18

nit other crimes as they have always done,
but let them receive the same punish
ments therefor as now awarded by lat.
Some guilty people will escape tie laws
penalties, as they have always dong but
justice is not on that account irrepsrably
outraged. Texas can get along and
progress, as it has done these forty odd
years, without settlss-ap the whipping
post at this late day. ~
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18

THE verdict rendered by the jury in
Memphis in the case of Gordon, who shot
the unprinciped prosecutor of his sister,
is in accordance with the worlds deci-
sion, and in keeping with that law which
autedates all printed codes. While not
lifting the weight of censure from the
shoulders of the man who showed himself
to be 8 most unprincipled scoundrel,
there is another party in all this shame,
which has resulted in stsining an honest
name, and branding brother as muir
derer, whose responsibility must not be
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18

THE Willis case presents some strange
features. One witness testified that he
did not know that he had been indicted
and tried and acquitted in Judge Willis
court until he read an account of it in
The GAZETTE, while en- route to his
ranch. This would seem, to unprofes-
sional minds, to be Judicial procedure
with vengeance, no better than a farce
or a sham
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18
A SOLUTION SUGGESTED.
To h at Railway Coaches by Means OF
Hot Water Slugs.


HEARNE, TEX. Feb. Is, 1887,
To the Editor Of the Gazette
l see good many questions raised in
the papers over the matter of heating rail
way coaches without burning them up in
case of an accident, and the demand OF
the times seems to be for solution OF
that problem. | wonder that some one
has not suggested the European method,
VIZ that of placing under the feet of the
passengers metallic or lead slugs, say rs
long as the seat, ten or twelve inches
wide and four or five inches thick, and
filed with hot water. | have ridden
through various foreign countries where,
at certain places it was the business OF
men to go along and slip out the old and
place in fresh slugs, which furnished solid
comfort for the traveller all the time. The
only question is whether it would require
our coaches to be built like theirs.
H. r. COLEMAN,
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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18

THE city election approaches and it's
coming should find the city prepared.
This election is not so much politics to
the people as it is business. There are
certain aldermen going out, and if the
people of their wards prefer them to all
others, these retiring aldermen should be
renomiuated for reelection whether
willing or unwilling.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18

ACCORDING to information furnished
the St. Louis Globe Democrat, 1t seems
that Little Rock, Ark, and Sherman and
Fort Worth, Tex, are to get the extern
sions determined on by the st. Louis, Ar
kansas and Texas Railway, This road is
most rapidly taking rank with the great
lines of the country. Was it not Dal-
las paper that said Fort Worth would
deserve the road?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18

EACH ward in Fort Worth owes duty
to the city as whole. That duty is to
select the very best material for Alder
men. Let the people of each ward de-
eide upon q preference and choose the
man regardless of what he may say. This
is no time for any citizen of Fort Worth
10 shirk or shrink from his duty.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18

ACCORDING to THE GAzETTR's Sher-
man correspondent that city is promised
a paper mill. If the promise be fulfilled,
truly may it be called "good for Sher-
man" as well as for the state.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18

THE confession of Thomas NJ. Joseph,
Treasurer of the Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows of Texas, will be shock to
every member of the order and to his
many friends all over Texas. He says
nearly SIS, 900 of odd Fellows money
went in mining speculations. Did
bucket-shop speculation get any of it
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18

WOULD not this be good time for
Tarrant county to make vigorous effort
tn sell its school lands
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18

sx-subscribers wishing their address
hanged from one postofice to another, must
give the oil address as well as the new, or the
change cannot be made.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18

fully. The Marquis OF Lorne is not
Prince Albert in any sense, and has in
many ways ignored the "noblesse oblige"
belonging to his rank.